110. The powerful national junior team (2)
This round of the Chinese Super League is the twenty-ninth round and the penultimate round, because the Chinese Super League champion has already been produced, so everyone is concerned about the last two AFC Champions League places, and the last relegation place.
In terms of relegation places, in addition to Guizhou Renhe, who has been confirmed to be relegated with 23 points, the second-to-last is Tianjin TEDA, with 22 points, and the third-to-last is Liaoning Hongyun, with 27 points.
In the case of two rounds left in the league, Tianjin TEDA wants to win both rounds, and also look forward to Liaoning Hongyun two defeats, after all, this season's two-legged contest between the two sides, Liaoning Hongyun is at home 3:2, away 0:0 The score occupies an advantage, and the hope of TEDA relegation is very slim.
However, in the Chinese Super League, the relationship network is like a messy yarn, densely intertwined, and now it is strictly controlled, match-fixing is impossible, but the tacit ball is really difficult to say, so the result is also unpredictable.
In terms of the AFC Champions League, now in addition to Longteng and Guangzhou Evergrande Tieding occupy two places, the remaining three teams, including Beijing Guoan, have a chance.
Guangzhou Evergrande is now 58 points, Shanghai SIPG is 52 points, Shandong Luneng is 51 points, and Beijing Guoan is 50 points. In addition, Shandong Luneng still has the final of the FA Cup to play, so even if they can't get the third place in the Chinese Super League, they still have the FA Cup to qualify for the AFC Champions League.
However, in the last two rounds of the game, Guangzhou Evergrande has to face Shandong Luneng and Beijing Guoan one after another, and Beijing Guoan has been "boasted" by Beijing media: "It doesn't matter how many Guoan's results rank first this year. This year we have influenced the trend of the Super League champions and relegation teams. ”
This time, it is the turn of Guangzhou Evergrande, which has already qualified for the AFC Champions League, to be the judge.
But how could Beijing Guoan give up such an important position as a "judge" to Guangzhou Evergrande, and then they almost succeeded in becoming a judge.
When Zhang Sheng thought that Tian Jin Taida was bound to be relegated, the result was a great upset in this round, Tian Jin Taida and Beijing Guoan, who have always been not dealt with, had a score of 4:0 in the Beijing Jin Derbi, which has always been very hot, although this game is the home of Tian Jin Taida, but the penultimate league beat the league fifth with such a big score, which is really jaw-dropping.
It's a pity that Liaoning Hongyun, who is ranked third-to-last, has not relied on their mouths to succeed in relegation in recent years, they still defeated the sixth-ranked Shanghai Greenland Shenhua 1:0 at their home stadium, and firmly pressed Tianjin Taida under their bodies.
It can only be said that the teams in the Chinese Super League are all showing their own powers and have their own means.
In this way, when the Longteng team defeated Chongqing Lifan, which had no desire or desire, 2:0, it also watched a good show of relegation for free.
Tian Jin Taida this old Super League powerhouse, once had a lot of brilliant results of the team relegated to the Chinese League, and then think about the second half of this year and Tian Jin Taida because of Sun Ke's disagreement in the uproar of the right Jian also acquired Tian Jin Songjiang to buy the shell of the Chinese League successfully, next year's Chinese League really has a good show.
At the same time, in this round of the game, Guangzhou Evergrande drew 2-2 with Shandong Luneng at their home stadium, and Shanghai SIPG defeated Changchun Yatai 0:2 away, so that the points gap between SIPG and Luneng was pulled to 3 points, even if Shandong Luneng and Shanghai SIPG played in two legs, with a score of 3:4 away and a score of 0:1 at home because of the fact that there were many away goals, it was impossible to hope that Shanghai SIPG would lose to Liaoning Hongyun at their home stadium.
Shandong Luneng also basically gave up the league and went all out to prepare for the FA Cup, hoping to win the FA Cup championship and qualify for the AFC Champions League.
Therefore, the last round of the game because the qualification team for the AFC Champions League has basically been decided, and the relegated team has also been produced, all the games seem to be uneventful, and the only thing that attracts attention is that Pato of the Longteng team has completed his second hat trick in the league against Henan Jianye away from home, defeating the opponent 0:3.
In addition to his opponent in the AFC Champions League final, Zhang Sheng is now most concerned about the situation of the World Junior Championships.
The date of the quarterfinals of the Chinese national junior team was in the early morning of the day before the final round of the league, and Zhang Sheng also watched the game through LeTV Sports, which bought the broadcast rights of the World Junior Championships.
After a few days of rest, this time the Chinese national junior team can be described as neat and full of physical fitness, as long as this game can beat the opponent, the Chinese national junior team is likely to tie the best result in history - enter the quarterfinals.
Rick Link doesn't pay much attention to the opponent in this game, because Ecuador is not a strong team in South America, and the reason why they have been able to enter the finals of the World Cup and Copa America many times in history is more due to their home advantage - their home stadium is in the capital Quito at an altitude of nearly 3,000 meters, and all South American teams, except for La Paz, the home of Bolivia, which is also a plateau country, are nearly 4,000 meters away, and other teams are very uncomfortable playing in Ecuador.
However, the Ecuadorian national team has been in good shape recently, they just defeated Argentina 2:0 in the world preliminaries, second only to Uruguay with two consecutive wins, but unfortunately the national team is the national team, and the national junior team is another world - Ecuador's best national junior team results are the same as the Chinese national junior team, which is the seventh place in the World Junior Championships.
This year's Ecuador national junior team does not have any well-known hopes, and the previous time it was able to win seventh place because there was Valencia in the team, who later played for Manchester United.
The only two notable players in the Ecuadorian squad are Guerrero and Washington Corrozo.
The former is the team's organizational core, as well as a long-range shot, Corozzo is the team's striker, tall and strong, excellent header ability, as for the other players, most of them are only players in the domestic club echelon, and there are very few who can play in the first team.
Even so, as a South American team and a country with a strong mixed race, their players' individual abilities are still good, with skills at their feet and very strong bodies, and the threat should not be underestimated when facing teams that are not very good in technology.
For example, in history, they defeated the Russian national junior team 4:1 in the quarterfinals and entered the quarterfinals, and with this big victory, they ranked fifth in this World Junior Championships, breaking their best results in history.
After the start of the game, Ecuador adhered to the tactics of head coach Rodriguez - defensive counterattack, and after the Chinese national junior team held the ball, they retracted their formation very much.
Seeing the opponent's tactics, Rick Link was very confident in letting the players of the national junior team press all the way, especially Xiang Tiange on the right wingback because of his offensive ability, and basically changed from a fullback to a fullback.
Zhang Sheng, who was looking at this situation, had a faint feeling of uneasiness in his heart, because Rick Link was obviously a little underestimated.
Zhang Sheng does not have many objections to Rick Link's coaching ability, but the coach who has been coaching in Europe for a long time is obviously a little too proud, and he has said many times in history that China's domestic players are not capable, and now China has a group of good players, and he looks down on others.
Sure enough, the situation on the field was just as Zhang Sheng thought.
In just eight minutes of the opening game, the Chinese national junior team had three shots on goal, but these shots were not too threatening, after all, there are many players in the Ecuadorian backfield, and most of the shots of the national junior team are long-range shots.
Ecuador's counterattack was extremely threatening.
In the 11th minute of the first half, the corner kick attack of the national junior team failed, because most of the players were involved in the attack in the Ecuadorian penalty area, so there were very few defensive players, and Ecuadorian goalkeeper Ceballos held the ball, and a big foot directly found Washington Corrozo in the front.
Washington Corrozo used his strong body to get the ball in a header scramble with Dawn, and his header was deflected in the direction of Guerrero, who used his speed to get the ball and past Zhu Chenjie, the last central defender of the national junior team, to form a one-on-one knife.
Li Xin and Dong Lu, who were in charge of commenting the game, saw Ecuador's attack, and the two exclaimed in unison: "Dangerous!"
Fortunately, in order to get past Zhu Chenjie, Guerrero touched the ball very strongly, although he got rid of Zhu Chenjie's defense, but Huang Dawei rushed out as soon as possible, he grabbed the ball before Guerrero got the ball, and kicked the ball far out of the sideline with a big foot.
Seeing that the danger of the national junior team was lifted, Li Xin was relieved, and then said in his unique teasing way: "Fortunately, Huang Dawei's attack was timely, if Guerrero's touch was less than two-sevenths of the ball, and Huang Dawei's attack time was 1.34 seconds slower, it would be really dangerous." ”
Dong Lu, as an amateur head coach, a domestic youth training expert, and a well-known "Emperor Who Understands the Ball", made an analysis of Rick Link's tactics: "The national youth team played too aggressively in this game. Except for Zhu Chenjie and Liming, the rest of the players have all passed the half, and Zeng Prosperity as the organizational core of the midfield, is also too forward, he should pull back a moderate point, the first can let Ecuador's defenders come out, and the second is that he also has room to play the skills of his feet, and the current national junior team, except for Nie Jiang, is the strongest technical ability at his feet. ”
It should be said that Dong Lu still knows how to play, and as a football person who pays great attention to youth training, he is very familiar with most of the outstanding young players in China.
Zeng Prosperity, as a player of Longteng Club, the club with the most outstanding youth training performance in China, Dong Lu has of course worked hard and is very familiar with some of his characteristics.
Ricklink's reaction was very timely, seeing that Ecuador's counterattack was very threatening, he asked the team to pull the formation out a little bit and come back, Nie Jiang returned from the penalty area to the top of the arc, and Zeng Xingxing was also closer to his back.
Nie Jiang and Zeng Fanfang, the two players with the strongest foot ability, approached the midfield, and their attacking pressure on Ecuador was even greater.
In the 16th minute of the first half, Zeng Prosperity connected two players in the midfield, and then his long-range shot tested the Ecuadorian goalkeeper, who did his best to save the goal.
"Wow! Li Xin shouted, "Very imaginative, especially the fried croquettes that passed for the second time, which is no worse than South American players, and domestic players rarely have such actions." That shot at the end was also a reflection of his long-range ability. ”
Dong Lu is obviously more familiar with Zeng Prosperity: "Xiao Zeng is not simple. You don't know, he used to play wild football. Later, after being discovered by the scouts of Longteng Football School, he was recruited into the Longteng Club, and I heard that it was Coach Zhang Sheng's personal board, and he was recruited with Liming, who is now playing as a central defender on the field. ”
"Oh. And this story?" Li Xin picked up the stalk very quickly.
"Yes. Because he was born in wild football, he later went through the formal youth training of Longteng Club. Many of Zeng Wang's technical moves clearly have the characteristics of wild balls. Dong Lu said, "There are some movements that players from pure professional classes don't like to use, and he often uses them. ”
"Definitely. Li Xin nodded and said, "A lot of our current youth training in China is too rigid, and the coach often tells you that this can't be used, that can't be used, and a lot of aura of young players is just gone." If I'm not mistaken, Nie Jiang was also born in wild football. ”
"He could have been a little bit different. "Dong Lu talked about the origin of the outstanding young players in China, which is like a few family treasures, "Nie Jiang's father played professionally before, and he also played in AA, and he is the nephew of Chang Weiwei, a famous player in Jiangcheng, and he has followed Chang Weiwei to receive formal training in the echelon of Jiangcheng since he was a child. Although I gave up halfway and went to play wild football later, the foundation is still there. However, thanks to the guidance of Chang Weiwei and Zhang Sheng, he was able to pull him back to continue playing professionally. To be honest, without Zhang Sheng's guidance, many talented players would be buried. ”
Because at this time, the Chinese national youth team was pressing Ecuador to play, and kept passing the ball backwards in the midfield, looking for opportunities, Dong Lu saw that there was not much to explain, so he set up a dragon gate formation.
However, from the explanations of these two commentators, it can be seen that the national youth team has a great advantage now, and they all have the leisure to talk about the past of the players.
Not long after the two commentators finished talking, the national junior team organized another wave of attacks, and the focus of this attack became Nie Jiang.
Sensing Zeng's threat, Ecuador sent two players to guard him, one following him closely and the other ready to jam his passing lanes.
After Zeng Fanfang couldn't get rid of the opponent's defense several times in a row in the midfield, he handed the ball to Xiang Tiange on the right, hoping to find opportunities from the side.
After Xiang Tiange got the ball, he used his speed to launch an impact, and he successfully broke through with a quick stop and sharp turn in a beautiful high-speed dribble.
Zeng Fanfang attracted the attention of the opponent's two defenders in the middle, and the other striker Liu Ruofan pushed to the top of the arc of the penalty area, so that the opponent's central defender and another midfielder had to defend him, but Nie Jiang entered the opponent's penalty area through a smart run at this time and received a pass from Xiang Tiange.
Although Nie Jiang had his back to the goal, he still got the opportunity to play one-on-one with the opposing central defender.